Gribbin (1990: 172):
As Feynman explained to his BBC TV audience in 1965, if you have an apparatus that is capable of telling which hole the electron goes through, then you can say that it either goes through one hole or the other. But when you have no apparatus to determine through which hole the thing goes, then you cannot say that that it goes through either one hole or the other. "To conclude that it goes either through one hole or the other when you are not looking is to produce an error," he states.
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Feynman's explanation of quantum physics is in line with the view of Systemic Functional Linguistic theory that the acts of looking (and saying) are acts of construing experience as meaning. If no-one is looking, there is no meaning being construed of an experience.
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